Antiretroviral (ART) Clinician at Nsanje District Hospital, John Alimoni has said ART default rate has tremendously increased at the hospital with 18.2 percent of its total registered population avoiding the medication. Alimony said that some people who are on ARVs continue to shun treatment despite Ministry of Health’s effort in making ART available for the […]
More Malawians continue being diagnosed with HIV with the country registering 1000 new cases every week and over 50 000 every year. Vice President Khumbo Kachali disclosed this Saturday during this year’s National World AIDS day event that took place at Nsanje Secondary School in Nsanje. The vice president, who is also Minister of Health, […]
Distance to health facilities and Youth Drop-in Centers (YDC) offering youth friendly health services is one of the contributing factors hindering girls in Chinkhwawa from accessing services targeting young people, it has been observed. Traditional Authority (T/A) Masache of Chinkhwawa made the observation, during an outreach meeting organized by Youth Net Counseling (YONECO) on Tuesday. […]
Malawi government authorities are optimistic that the country will this time around be considered for HIV/AIDS funding from Global Fund. The Global Fund is an international financing institution dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. According to Principal Secretary responsible for nutrition and HIV/AIDS in […]
Malawi will on 1st December join the rest of the world in commemorating the world AIDS day in a ceremony to be held in Nsanje District. The launch of the 2012/2013 world AIDS day will be held in Nsanje District, whereby the community and institutional level activities will be highlighted from Sunday December 2, 2012. The […]
Ntcheu District Hospital’s under-five ward in charge, Patricia Chiumia has advised students to learn to assist the needy and underprivileged. Chiumia said this last Sunday when members of Malawi Adventist University’s Prayer Band donated assorted groceries wealth over MK8,000 to 21 patients and guardians in the hospital’s under five ward. The ward in charge further […]
Nearly a million Malawians are diagnosed with diabetes a non-communicable disease (NCD) in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood, statistics from Diabetes Association of Malawi have shown. This comes as Malawi joins the rest of the world in dedicating the month of November as a diabetes awareness month. The association’s president Pastor Timothy […]
The Vice President Khumbo Kachali said Friday there is a vacancy rate of 75% of nurses and midwives in the country which puts extreme pressure on them to meet expected delivery of quality health services. The Vice President expressed the sediment at Kamuzu College of Nursing In Lilongwe when he officially opened the 3rd National […]
An increase in collaboration and partnerships must occur to boost efforts to fight against HIV and AIDS and ensure that those living with the virus are not subjected to stigma and discrimination, says the Malawi Network for People Living with HIV and AIDS (MANET+). MANET+ programme officer responsible for Research and Advocacy George Kampango said […]
President Joyce Banda on Thursday officially opened a magnificent K19m maternity at Mulanje district hospital built with financial support from the Standard Bank. The 32- bedroom maternity dubbed ‘waiting home’ is part of the fruits of the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood Programme championed by the Banda administration aimed at reducing maternal related deaths. “I […]
A two day capacity building workshop on effective HIV/Aids reporting started on Thursday at Bridge View Hotel in Lilongwe with a call from National Aids Commission (NAC) and the Ministry of Health to journalist to be passionate in reporting about the epidemic issues. Speaking at the opening ceremony, NAC Executive Director Dr. Thomas Bisika applauded […]
Malawi government says it has resumed talks with Libyan government on the construction of a district hospital to be built at Kameza in Blantyre. Malawi set up diplomatic ties with Libya government in 2001 during the reign of former President Bakili Muluzi, who often said Malawi would benefit from co-operation with Libya. Late Colonel Muarmar […]
The National AIDS Commission (NAC) has organized a series of capacity building workshops for Malawian media to improve the way journalists think about and practice HIV/AIDS reporting. The workshops are scheduled to take place in all the three regions in the country, with the Central Region Workshop set for tomorrow (Thursday), November 15 at the […]
There are many patients dying from treatable conditions due to shortage of some essential drugs at Malawi’s largest referral hospital, QECH, according to a published report. The Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) has confirmed the shortage of drugs at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH. There were also reports of other shortage of drugs in other public […]
University of North Carolina (UNC) project says the effectiveness of malaria clinical trial vaccine RTS, on infant between the ages of six to 12 months is lower than last year’s older category. Speaking in Lilongwe on Friday when presenting the results from ongoing phase III clinical malaria trial vaccine, Site Principal Investigator, Professor Francis Martinson […]
Vice President Khumbo Kachali, who is also Minister of Health, has bemoaned the tendency by nurses and midwives in the country who leave to seek better wages abroad instead of working in the country. Like most African countries, Malawi has suffered from a severe shortage of nurses and key health workers. In the past, workers […]
Traditional leaders from Malawi’s southern district of Neno are pledging their support towards the Presidential Initiative on Safemotherhood which seeks to improve maternal health as well reduce maternal deaths among women. They were speaking at a meeting held by chairperson of the initiative Senior Chief Kwataine on at the headquarters of Traditional authority Chekucheku in […]
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) have asked Malawians not to use religion and culture to ‘punish’ homosexuals and other sexual minorities. CHRR Programmes Manager Timothy Mtambo made the call Monday in Mzuzu in his key note address to mark the opening of a two-day workshop […]